Subject: [IP] Return of Total Information Awareness project?
* From: David Farber
Harris Miller, president of the Information Technology Association of
America, organized the gathering of about 50 security-industry
executives from companies such as Microsoft, Oracle, and Verizon.
Reached by phone at the meeting, he characterized the event as "an
organizational meeting to discuss how the [information-technology]
industry can work more effectively with each other" and with the
Homeland Security Department.
Because the meeting was closed to the press, Miller would not discuss
Chertoff's comments.One meeting participant said that Chertoff told the
group that having a nonprofit collect names rather than the government
"would alleviate some of the concerns people have." Not so for this
participant: "This is what made me sort of shift in my seat. It sounds
like investigating every person for no reason." He was particularly
concerned that an unknown formula created by this new group would
determine the red flags.